Set-top cable boxes consume about as much energy as a refrigerator over the course of a year.
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"The broadcast guys are all about the path of least resistance, " one top cable sales executive says.
In late 2004, Pagano was also bestowed with the honor of being named as one of the honorees in the 2004 CableFAX 100, profiling top cable industry influences.
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The idea is to have base stations everywhere beaming Net connections at 2.4 megabits per second--faster than top cable modem speeds--so that people can be connected no matter if they are in the street, in a car or at a restaurant.
The Tivo seems to be shifting to be focused on adding functionality on top of cable.
It owns significant chunks of 22 of the top 50 cable channels and 7 of the 10 fastest-growing.
Among other things, she does foresee a future in which the top 10 cable networks (think USA, as opposed to niche cable outlets like Oxygen) have developed an intra-cable syndication market for shows they can then sell to smaller networks.
Kevin Hause, who tracks interactive business for IDC, thinks that it is too soon to say whether Sun will be able to dominate the cable set-top box market, as cable operators are hedging their bets on various operating systems.
When Malone arrived, TCI was a top-10 cable operator, with 400, 000 subscribers.
Set-top boxes allow cable-TV subscribers to surf the Internet from their sofas.
Fox News has been top-rated cable news network for seven years.
He writes virtually every show himself and has kept it interesting, maintaining his status as the top-rated cable anchor for more than a decade, he said.
Traditionally, service providers used devices like set-top boxes with cable cards that allowed them to ensure only paying subscribers were receiving the content and that it was protected.
The Arab royal-family-owned network will be entering a tumultuous, fragmented marketplace for news programming where the top-ranked cable news shows garner ratings only in the hundreds of thousands at any one time, not millions, analysts said.
The TV Everywhere rights for the networks of NBCUniversal are part of a broader agreement for Verizon FiOS TV customers, which also includes the full suite of top-rated cable networks from NBCUniversal: USA, Bravo Media, cloo, Chiller, CNBC, E!
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Using data gleaned from public profiles on Facebook, Twitter, Miso and Get Glue- Trendrr is ranking the volume of buzz and social actions (check-ins, tweets, posts) for terms associated with TV shows- a top ten for cable and broadcast.
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For anyone who'd cursed out their cable company, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 promised salvation by allowing competitors to "overbuild" on top of entrenched local cable companies.
What remains is the cable set top business formerly known as General Instrument and Police and First Responder Interconnect systems plus some network business.
Clumsy tech and weak content (I'll get to that later) is why home media streaming hasn't taken off as much as we would all like and why most of us, myself included, still have old-fashioned set-top boxes from the cable company.
According to the site TV By The Numbers, it ranked as the top-rated original cable series on Thursday nights among viewers 12 to 34, and pulled in an average of 3 million total viewers per episode since its premiere in January.
The living room TV experience can now be extended to a second or third TV and even remotely to a TV outside of your home using SlingPlayer on a NeoTV, without having to lease additional set-top boxes from your cable or satellite service provider.
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For example, there are industry standards for measuring energy usage in TVs and cable set-top boxes.
Remember those rumors that the networking giant was shopping around its Scientific Atlanta cable set-top box business?
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One half, Motorola Mobility, got the cellphone and cable set-top box units and ex- Qualcomm exec Sanjay Jha as CEO.
Only now are recording abilities beginning to show up in cable set-top boxes.
If it's something in the living room, like your cable set-top box or stereo, Microsoft could be in trouble.
Set top boxes for satellite and cable also use a hardware module to authenticate devices and bind them to subscribers.
Write it down: this may have been the day that the cable set-top box business came down with a terminal disease.
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Cable set-top box maker Scientific-Atlanta may be guilty of the most bizarre power button behavior for its digital video recorder distributed by TimeWarner Cable.
The tool is to radio what cable set-top technology is to television, said David Frerichs, Sonicbox's co-founder, chief technical officer and vice president of marketing.
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